Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Hello Photographers, Artists and WritersI would like to invite you to submit photographs for Hijacked 2. New Australian and German Photography. The submission period for Hijacked Volume 2 - Australia and Germany has already commenced in a light manner. The contribution period officially opens on January 1st, 2009. and will continue until June 2009. The deadline for foto submissions is scheduled for June 1st 2009. This invitation is expressed to you and to anyone you think this might appeal to... (recommendations - people with amazing photographs???) Submit and send up to 20 fotos. (jpegs is fine for now) email info@bigcitypress.com.au

Please send me any queries, questions, feedback. Submission, does not guarantee that you will be published. There is an editing process. So if you are selected, we will be requesting high resolution files later in 2009. This will be a great photography book project. Book launches and exhibitions are scheduled for 2010 in Australia and Germany. kind regards and thanks for your time and patience. Mark McPherson

About Me

Big City Press is an independent publishing house, specialising in photo books, based in Mosman Park, Western Australia. Mark McPherson is the founder of Big City Press, the independent publisher of the Hijacked photographic book series. Hijacked: Volume 1 was presented in the Book Awards at the celebrated Rencontres d’Arles festival in France (2009) and received the Photo Book-Award from the Kasseler Fotoforum, Germany in the same year.
McPherson exhibited at the Pingyao 2009 International Photography Festival China and is a nominator for the Deutsche Borse Photography Prize 2010. He was also nominated for the Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam – Paul Huf Award 2010 and will present a workshop, photographic reviews and Hijacked: Volume 2 – Australia/Germany at Rhubarb-Rhubarb International Festival,
Host Gallery London, Fotografie Forum Frankfurt, KLOMPCHING
GALLERY New York, Australian Centre for Photography and the Monash
Gallery of Art, Melbourne in 2010. In 2012, he will release the third volume of Hijacked – Australia & UK, in conjunction with Louise Clements, Senior Curator from Quad, Format International Photography Festival, Derby, United Kingdom.